Tag: ” Drew Faust

  • Arts & Culture

    Student work graces Mass Hall

    Bringing home (literally) Harvard’s newly invigorated commitment to the arts, President Drew Faust has opened up Massachusetts Hall to an exhibition of selected artwork by talented undergraduates.

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  • Nation & World

    Kim Dae-jung has ‘sunny’ advice for U.S.

    Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung told an audience at Harvard Kennedy School’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Tuesday night (April 22) that the United States should allow the sun to shine on its relations with the world’s fastest growing economic power.

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  • Campus & Community

    Steering Committee Members

    Steering committee to enhance spaces on Harvard’s Cambridge campus.

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  • Campus & Community

    President Faust announces committee to enhance spaces on Harvard’s Cambridge campus

    Harvard University President Drew Faust today announced the formation of a University-wide steering committee to explore ways to enhance Harvard’s Cambridge campus to ensure that the physical environment better supports the intellectual and social vitality of the University.

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  • Campus & Community

    Mora to step down as vice president for finance

    Elizabeth Mora, a senior member of the University’s financial administration since 1997, today (April 15) announced her intention to step down as vice president for finance and chief financial officer.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Gender and religious scholarship

    A few minutes into a conference last week at the Radcliffe Gymnasium, a building technician appeared on the balcony to open some windows. At the podium below, one of the presenters paused to say, “Air is good.”

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  • Campus & Community

    Jeremy R. Knowles

    Jeremy R. Knowles, an eminent chemist and longtime leader of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, died today (April 3) at his home in Cambridge, after a struggle with cancer.

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  • Campus & Community

    This year’s HAA Global Series leads to China

    In March 2008 Harvard President Drew Faust traveled to Shanghai, China, for the sixth Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Global Series.

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  • Science & Tech

    Cities can help turn the world green

    Can green cities save a blue planet? That question was posed last week by Harvard climatologist Daniel Schrag, director of Harvard’s Center for the Environment. The professor of Earth and planetary sciences and professor of environmental science and engineering was one of three technical experts who spoke at a conference March 5 — co-sponsored by…

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  • Campus & Community

    HUSEC examines interdisciplinary and interSchool science efforts

    When the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC) gathered for its first meeting late last April, it was charged by not one, but two Harvard presidents. Then president-designate and now president Drew Faust told the 18 members of the new committee that theirs is both a unique and “historic” body, created to forge meaningful…

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  • Health

    President testifies for increase in NIH funding

    With the careers of a generation of young researchers threatened by five years of flat National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, Harvard President Drew Faust and leaders of six other major research institutions were in Washington Tuesday (March 11) calling on Congress to repair the “Broken Pipeline” through which breakthroughs in the biomedical sciences should…

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  • Campus & Community

    President Faust appoints task force on Harvard greenhouse gas emissions

    Harvard University President Drew Faust today (Feb. 27) announced the formation of a task force comprised of faculty, students, and administrators charged with examining Harvard’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and recommending a University-wide greenhouse gas reduction goal.

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  • Campus & Community

    Local superintendents, Faust share ideas

    Harvard President Drew Faust met with public school superintendents and professional associates from Boston area schools on Feb. 8 to share ideas about, among other things, educational leadership, teaching and learning, and preparing students from preschool through college and beyond.

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  • Campus & Community

    Standing committees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    Upon the recommendation of the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard President Drew Faust has approved and announced the following Standing Committees. Standing Committees of the faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the faculty, and can be dissolved only by…

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  • Campus & Community

    Allston-Brighton celebrates its 200th birthday

    More than 300 guests attended a gala event on Nov. 17 at the new WGBH offices on Guest Street in Brighton in honor of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Brighton and Allston communities.

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  • Campus & Community

    Somber, joyful service marks 75th birthday

    Over a thousand people crowded into the Memorial Church Sunday (Nov. 11) for a special birthday. Seventy-five years earlier, almost to the minute, the Colonial-style structure was dedicated on Armistice Day 1932.

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  • Campus & Community

    Statistics captures unpredictability of real world

    Harvard’s small but active statistics department celebrated its 50th anniversary last week. There were two days of lectures and panels Oct. 26-27 at the Gutman Conference Center, and a noisy, social, and musical banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston.

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  • Campus & Community

    Faust, Pilbeam greet freshman parents

    To an assemblage of 1,000 freshman parents on Oct. 26 in Sanders Theatre, Dean of Harvard College David R. Pilbeam offered a welcome. “Your freshman is already a member of the extended Harvard family.”

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  • Campus & Community

    President’s office hours 2007-08

    President Drew Faust will hold office hours for students and staff in her Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard president announces task force on the arts

    Harvard President Drew Faust announced today (Nov. 1) that she is creating a University-wide task force to examine the place of the arts at Harvard. Chaired by Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt, the task force draws its membership from faculty, students, and others across the University who represent many fields and modes of engagement with…

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  • Campus & Community

    Administrative Fellowship Program names 10 fellows

    Continuing the legacy of a flagship leadership development fellowship for academic administrators of color, 10 new fellows have been selected for the 2007-08 class of the Administrative Fellowship Program. The seven visiting fellows are talented professionals drawn from business, education, and the professions outside the University, while the three resident fellows are exceptional professionals currently…

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  • Campus & Community

    President’s office hours 2007-08

    President Drew Faust will hold office hours for students and staff in her Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

    1 minute
  • Arts & Culture

    The hunger for live theater

    Harvard President Drew Faust was about to cut the giant ribbon stretched across the stage of the New College Theatre when a shrill voice called out from the back of the audience:

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  • Campus & Community

    Reception closes festivities

    The final event in the inauguration of President Drew Faust took place on Friday (Oct. 12) at Loeb House and its surrounding grounds under two large tents. Cool air did…

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  • Campus & Community

    President’s office hours 2007-08

    President Drew Faust will hold office hours for students and staff in her Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Vibrant robing, moist procession lead to inaugural stage

    A half-hour before the procession stepped off, faculty, delegates of other institutions, and other participants in the installation ceremony gathered in the courtyard between Boylston Hall, Memorial Church, and Weld…

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  • Campus & Community

    The evening ends on a sweet note

    When saxophonist Joshua Redman ’91 played “The Best Is Yet to Come” as one of his closing numbers, the Harvard alumnus joked that the best may indeed be yet to…

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  • Campus & Community

    Fanfare, dramaturges mark dedication

    The dusty old grand dame of Harvard theater has gotten a new lease on life, and what was once known as the Hasty Pudding Theatre has been reborn as the New College Theatre, a state-of-the-art facility boasting the latest in technology, ambience, and creature comforts.

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  • Campus & Community

    Neighbors enjoy Crimson football

    In her first official public appearance since her installation as Harvard’s 28th president, Drew Faust joined more than 700 Allston Brighton neighbors at the Allston Brighton Family Football Day Oct. 13 at Harvard Stadium.

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  • Nation & World

    The truths lost and gained in wartime

    The symposium “War and Truth” explored the modern resonance of an ancient sentiment: “In war, truth is the first casualty.” It’s attributed to the Greek tragedian Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.) and…

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